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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1098 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 14 Jul 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/222/41
Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to Commander in Chief, British Army of Occupation [Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery] marked "Top Secret and Personal" stating that no German research and development establishments should be destroyed.

Dates: 14 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 24 Apr 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/216/27-28
Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to President Harry Truman marked "Personal and Top Secret" suggesting an alternative to Truman's message to Marshal Stalin on the zones of occupation in Germany and Austria; and detailing arrangements for occupation before and after Germany is finally defeated.

Dates: 24 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 24 Apr 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/216/33
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, British Ambassador in the United States] to WSC marked "Top Secret and Personal" reporting discussions between Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson [Representative of the British Chiefs of Staff in Washington, United States] and General George Marshall [Chief of Staff United States Army] on the French zone of occupation in Germany. Copy.

Dates: 24 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 24 Apr 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/216/35
Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later Lord Avon, in the United States] marked "Top Secret" asserting that President Harry Truman's suggested draft message to Marshal Stalin on zones of occupation in Germany and Austria makes no arrangements about the food question and is "obscure". Copy.

Dates: 24 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1906

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/27/54-56
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Villa Cassel, Moerel, Valais, Switzerland) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] including: his wish that George [Cornwallis-West] had a better opinion of the government; financial affairs; correspondence with King [Edward VII] about WSC's [visit to see German army manoeuvres] and the King's instruction that WSC is not to be "too frank with 'his nephew'" [Kaiser Wilhelm II]; a description of his stay with [Ernest] Cassel; his disappointment at losing money at bridge; a legal...
Dates: 01 Sep 1906
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Acquired Papers / Acquired Papers. Letters from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill. All letters are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 29 Sep 1906

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/27/60-62
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Siena [Italy]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] including: discussion of the financial difficulties of George [Cornwallis-West]; comment that his visit to see German army manoeuvres was "instructive"; a list of the places he has visited; his contentment [at the Colonial Office] and his decision to remain there until the Colonial Conference, and to settle issues connected with the Orange River Constitution and Nigerian Railway Stock; his confidence that he will win the...
Dates: 29 Sep 1906
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Acquired Papers / Acquired Papers. Letters from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill. All letters are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 04 Jan 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258A/119-124
Scope and Contents

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on an interim report by Mr Justice [Sir John] Singleton into the German Air Force and means of estimating its strength. [Copy; given running number 197a].

Dates: 04 Jan 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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(Untitled), 03 Jan 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258A/125-131
Scope and Contents

Report by [Lord Justice Sir] John Singleton for WSC marked "Confidential" on means of estimating the strength of the German Air Force and comparing it with the RAF. [Copy].

Dates: 03 Jan 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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(Untitled), [03] [Jan] [1941]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258A/132
Scope and Contents

Appendix "A" [to CHAR 20/258A/125-131] marked "Secret" setting out "identified" and "estimated first line establishment of the German Air Force", 1939.

Dates: [03] [Jan] [1941]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
 Unknown

(Untitled), 09 Feb 1954

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3C/241-242
Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter from "Ike" [Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States] (The White House, Washington} to WSC marked "personal" expressing pleasure at WSC's good health; commenting on outbursts by [Vyacheslav] Molotov [Soviet Union Foreign Minister]; the importance of unity between free nations; and future history and legacy of leaders. Typescript.

Dates: 09 Feb 1954
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: correspondence between WSC and President Dwight D Eisenhower [President of the United States].
 Unknown

(Untitled), 10 Dec 1948

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/22B/302-352
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (10 December, House of Commons) on foreign affairs including: the partition of Ireland and imperial preference; relations with the United States; the achievements of General Dwight Eisenhower; government policy regarding Germany and assistance to the people of Berlin; the progress of European integration; affairs in Palestine and Spain; and the likelihood of war with the Soviet Union.Typescript speaking notes laid out in "psalm style" to aid delivery with...
Dates: 10 Dec 1948
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill Papers / Speeches / Speeches: speech notes.
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Vienna, Berlin, Paris, London: Growing up in interesting times, 2000-06

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MISC 73
Scope and Contents

Autobiography of [Frederick] Gerard Friedlander [Friedrich Gerhart Friedlander], 1917-35, on his early life, and his mother Ruth Fischer, founder of the Austrian Communist Party, a prominent member of the German Communist Party, and a member of the "left" or Trotskyite opposition to Stalin in the Soviet Union.

Dates: 2000-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Some material within the collection is closed to researchers.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MISC, Churchill Archives Centre Miscellaneous Holdings
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Visit to Berlin, 1959-04-06 - 1959-04-07

Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 5/3
Scope and Contents

Album on CS’s visit to Germany as Secretary of State for War, to see British armed forces.

Dates: 1959-04-06 - 1959-04-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/SOAM, The Papers of Baron Soames / Photographs
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Visit to Essen, Germany, 1998-07

Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 21/18
Scope and Contents

Schedule, briefings and notes for NK’s opening of a traffic control centre.

Dates: 1998-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/KNNK, The Papers of Neil Kinnock / European Commission
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Visit to West Germany [later part of Germany], 1985-11

Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/21
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Programme and briefing on defence policy, including papers and press cuttings on the summit on arms control between the United States and Soviet Union at Geneva [Switzerland], 1985 and papers and press cuttings on the German Social Democratic Party, mainly relating to European defence policy. Also includes a programme for a visit to Sweden for a European conference, and arrangements for a meeting with Bill Keys, Chairman of the Trade Union Co-Ordinating Committee.

Dates: 1985-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/KNNK, The Papers of Neil Kinnock / Visits and meetings / Visits
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Visits, 1986-10

Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/27
Scope and Contents

Includes: German press cuttings of NK’s visit to Berlin [Germany]; arrangements and briefing for NK’s meeting with Allan Boesak, South African United Democratic Front; notes on a request for sponsorship from "Jarrow 86".

Dates: 1986-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/KNNK, The Papers of Neil Kinnock / Visits and meetings / Visits
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Visits and meetings, 1991-05 - 1991-06

Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/124
Scope and Contents Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: meeting with midwives, Royal College of Midwives Trust, to mark the first International Day of the Midwife, including correspondence with Ruth Ashton, General Secretary of the Trust; a dinner at the Italian embassy; meeting with Felipe Gonzalez, Prime Minister of Spain, including a briefing on the current state of the European Intergovernmental conferences on economic and political union; visits to Bonn, Germany (May and...
Dates: 1991-05 - 1991-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/KNNK, The Papers of Neil Kinnock / Visits and meetings / Visits
 Fonds

Walter Neill: Correspondence and papers

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9876
Scope and Contents

Letters written by WN to friends and family from the Far East, Germany and Holland whilst interned during the First World War; notes describing the riots in Hankow, 1927; photographs of China.

Dates: 1905-1927
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Walter Neill: Correspondence and papers
 Unknown

"War cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Weekly Resume (no.40) of the Naval, Military and Air Situation", 30 May- 6 Jun 1940

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/5/1-14
Scope and Contents Detailed summary of the war situation including: the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk including the effect of weather conditions, numbers evacuated, naval losses and attacks by German bombers; attacks by U-boats on seaborne trade; anti-submarine operations; German trade; overview of the military and air situation covering Norway, Italy, the North Sea and coastal operations, the bombing of Great Britain, attacks on Germany by Bomber Command, French and German air...
Dates: 30 May- 6 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: War Cabinet / Official: War Cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: weekly resumes.
 Unknown

"War Cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Weekly Resume (no.56) of the naval, military and air situation from 12 noon September to 12 noon September 26th, 1940", 27 Sep 1940

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/6/86-99
Scope and Contents Summary of events including: attempted landing at Dakar by General [Charles] de Gaulle; U boat activity in the North Atlantic and shipping losses; operations by German raiders; information about the disposition of German and Italian troops; events in Greece, Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], Bulgaria, the Mediterranean and the Middle East; air attacks on Germany (including Berlin) and on invasion ports in France and...
Dates: 27 Sep 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: War Cabinet / Official: War Cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: weekly resumes.
 Unknown

War Cabinet Paper, 08 Dec 1940

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/4/11
Scope and Contents Printed copy of a letter from WSC to President Roosevelt setting out the prospects for 1941 covering various subjects including: shared interests between Great Britain and the United States; the importance of sea and air power against Germany; reassurance about not requesting a large expeditionary army from the United States; the crucial importance of shipping to feed people and transport munitions and armies; shipping losses; battleship strength; the dangers posed by the Vichy French...
Dates: 08 Dec 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: War Cabinet / Official: War Cabinet: Prime Minister's Directives.
 Unknown

"Wars are not won by evacuations", 04 Jun 1940

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/140A/9-28
Scope and Contents Typescript copy of notes for WSC's speech on the fall of Belgium and surrender of King [Leopold] of Belgium; the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk [France]; the successes of the RAF; losses of men and weaponry; military development and the possibility of German invasion. Speech includes the phrase "We shall fight on the beaches . . . We shall never surrender".Carbon typescript copy with some manuscript annotations in ink [not by WSC] laid out in "psalm style" apart...
Dates: 04 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Speeches / Speeches: House of Commons: speech notes and other material.
 Unknown

"Westward, look, the land is bright", 27 Apr 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/150B/124-142
Scope and Contents Speaking notes for WSC's broadcast (27 April, BBC) on the war situation including: public morale; his tours of bomb-damaged cities; General Sir Archibald Wavell's [Commander in Chief Middle East] successes in Libya; German successes in the Balkans and British support for Greece; admiration in the United States for Great Britain; praise for troops from Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC); condemnation of [Benito] Mussolini "This whipped jackal"; the Battle of the Atlantic and praise...
Dates: 27 Apr 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Speeches / Speeches: speech notes and other material.

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